Can't stop commenting. Couldn't be happier for two people I've never met!

Ha! I know what you mean. Taking all my restraint not to comment more. This is awesome.

For some reason, I have been a total girly-girl about this. My husband got some laughs during the last few weeks as I'd leave the computer, run in, and say things like, "Oh my gosh! I think Althouse and Meade and going to get married!" "What? The blogger? Who's Meade?""Yeah, the blogger. Meade comments over there.""Why do you think these people will get married?""They went on a date. I think it went perfectly.""Why?""I just do. They seemed to indicate that it did.""So you think they're getting married?""Yes. I think it was that kind of date. Like our date.""Oh."

So, again, hooray! Happy for you two. Almost nothing better than two people who are meant for each other finding each other.

I always thought that only on the internet would it be possible to have a truly platonic relationship. But even here the pixels congregate and increase, and romance blooms. The paved over parking lot of my soul suspects a put on; but, if not, congratulations for surviving the winter with your trust and hope intact.

Well I have a dress that we made in ivory that five out of six women who bought used as a wedding dress. It is cocktail lenght and very flattering. The professor is out of our size range but I am sure we could figure something.

It's supposed to reopen at the troubled and nearly empty Neonopolis mall in Downtown Las Vegas the same weekend the new film begins. I'm not sure someone picking out baubles at Tiffany's would appreciate the 'atmosphere' in Downtown Vegas.

Still, if there really is cause for celebration (beyond a fine Spring Break trip), then I'd like to extend a hearty congratulations to all involved.

(also, late July is probably not the best time to be partying in Las Vegas, not everyone enjoys 100+ temperatures)

Aa good pre-nuptual protects the money/inheritances, as long as it is not thrown away in future years. A Family Limited Partnership created prior to the marriage will work if the assets on one or both sides need irrevocable protection. My best wishes and sincere love to you both.

i'm so happy for you. i don't actually know you except for this and i'm beyond thrilled and delighted. good for you and specially good for you significant other. he/she has no idea how lucky and how furtunate.

Even though Cincy is a different world than my part of Ohio (Greater Cleveland), I've enjoyed all the positive publicity our state has received during Althouse's romantic spring break. I even stopped by a Skyline last week (though I'm not that crazy about Skyline chili -- it's only good every once in a long while) and bought some Graeter's mint chocolate chip this weekend. :)

Will this be a new way for people to find the perfect boyfriend/girlfriend? Create a blog and attract commenters who are interested in your every thought, and see which commenter impresses you the most? (But...figures you had to have horses and shit to be good enough for a diva like Althouse.....)

Anyway, if this is an engagement, congratulations. An Althouse wedding will be a very nice thing to follow on her blog (frankly, I'm tired of politics), and it's a nice story that she found love in her own comments section.

Maxineto love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

But now, they've got to interrupt their own plans to worry and stress over Mom's foolish escapades, and frittering their inheritance right down a sinkhole.

I dunno, Maxine! The dude is, like, next door neighbors to rock stars and astronauts, has horses, and everything looks hella classy, right down to the wine glasses. Seems like a life of easy leisure from here on out! Eff teaching law!

The children are in greater danger from a step-father than a biological father.

The new man never sees the other man's children as his own.

When they are younger they are in danger from physical abuse. When they are older the abuse is in the form of manipulating the mother/wife into giving less attention/affection and money to the children.

The Althouse boys must not let themselves fall into denial and wishful thinking.

It is agreed that you are a flaming douche, but now you are a flaming douche who makes up words?

What the heck does "incompacited" mean? Do you use it in your circle (jerk) of moronic hate-filled liberal friends? Do they nod when you say it, too ashamed to admit that they have no idea what the hell you are rambling on about?

Althouse and Meade, Inc., with offices located in Paso Robles, California, currently conducts biological research projects, biological surveys, wetland delineations, environmental investigations, rare species surveys, monitoring, and permitting for government agencies and private landowners. The company produces biological reports, management plans, restoration plans, wetland delineation documents, and rare species survey reports, completing more than six hundred projects in the last eight years. The principal scientists, LynneDee Althouse and Daniel Meade contribute their forty years of combined biological and environmental consulting experience to the team. They work closely with agency professionals and landowners to develop cooperative agreements based on good science and permitting obligations. Althouse and Meade, Inc. is committed to teamwork in project planning and implementation. Their team has conducted resource surveys and assisted with conservation planning on over 120,000 acres in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Kern Counties.

Althouse and Meade, Inc. provides expert, professional service for permit compliance issues, provides expert identification and analysis of biological resources, and obtains permits from County agencies, the California Department of Fish and Game, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Regional Water Quality Control Board. Our team works cooperatively with the California Coastal Commission staff to design projects that are compatible with Coastal Commission requirements. Althouse and Meade, Inc. provides biological services for a 14,000 acre historic, working cattle ranch in San Luis Obispo County. Our services have including a complete biological survey of all wildlife and plants on the property, habitat mapping, constraints analysis, mitigation recommendations, EIR review, and planning consultation. Althouse and Meade, Inc. currently provides biological resource consultation and is responsible for permitting and monitoring for Union Pacific Railroad bridge and track maintenance projects across California and other western states. We have conducted biological assessments for the entire UPRR Santa Barbara sub division, which includes every bridge and culvert crossing on the railroad between the city of San Luis Obispo and Simi Pass in Ventura County.

Althouse and Meade, Inc. is a dedicated team of expert botanists, wildlife biologists, soil scientists, GIS specialists, monitoring professionals, and support staff. As needed, we have engaged other experts and professionals at the top of their fields with whom we have long-time working relationships.

Lead by its principals, Daniel Meade and LynneDee Althouse, and supported by a well-trained and dedicated staff, Althouse and Meade, Inc. brings to the process of environmental investigation, planning, and project development a strong scientific background, intimate understanding of natural communities and species, and a commitment to teamwork and communication. At each opportunity for service, the company goal is to provide the best scientifically based solutions for the problems inherent in the interface between human activity and environmental resources.

Altho' profess'd in my Absence from this, your Theatre of Topicks (as I call it), to do Pennance for this Lenten Season, I find cannot forbear in my Heart to make Exception, to wish upon You and Mr. Meade my heartiest Congratulations & Best Wishes for your intended Marriage.

As the Ghost of a Gentleman, dead these 260 Years and more, you may imagine the many Marriages to which I have been witness. Alas! Preparation for my own Matrimony was brought to an end, by my unexpect'd & sudden Death. But, I shant dwell on those doleful & dreary Particulars on this happy Occasion, but only say as our great Shakespeare doth:—

In Delay there lies no Plenty; Then come kiss me, Sweet and Twenty; Youth's a Stuff will not endure.

Alas! Few of us are young & Twenty; some of us have been in our Grave above two Centuries; but, those amongst the Living, if they tarry not further, may yet have Kissing enough.

Pray, do not take it amiss, then, if I offer a few commonplace Observations on the happy State of Marriage, viz.:—

Equal Years, and reciprocal Affection, are agreed to be a good Foundation for a happy married Life: I cannot see how such a Wedlock can be unfortunate, without the Principles of the Parties, or perhaps one of 'em, be pervert'd. Those therefore we wou’d chuse, if we marry with Wit in our Heads, and tho’ this is said to be impossible, by those who marry without any, and others who jeer ’em on that Occasion, I think it very practicable if People would but so do.

The happy Marriage is, where two Persons meet and voluntarily make Choice of each other, without principally regarding or neglecting the Circumstances of Fortune or Beauty. These may still love in spite of Adversity or Sickness : The former we may in some Measure defend our selves from, the other is the Portion of our very Make & Being. When you have a true Notion of this sort of Passion, your Humour of living great will vanish out of your Imagination, and you will find Love has nothing to do with State.

Solitude, with the Person belov'd, has a Pleasure beyond Shew or Pomp. You are therefore to consider, which of your Lovers will like you best undress'd, and, which will bear with You most when out of Humour? And, your Way to' this is to ask your Self, which of them you value most for his own Sake? and, by that, judge which gives the greater Instances of his valuing You for your Self only.

For, as the well-known Song warneth:

'Tis all for her Pelf; And not for her Self; 'Tis all Artifice, All Artifice all.

So, as I cannot but conclude that the very amiable Mr. Meade must needs value you only for you Self, and You for him, I must remain, wishing You & Mr. Meade every future Happiness,

Madam,

Your humble & obt. Servant,

Sir Archy

P.S.:—

In my other Capacity, as Surveyor of Lunaticks at this, your Theatre of Topicks, I cannot forbear to remark that Mrs. Weiss hath gone compleatly mad, and is fit to be carry'd to Bedlam, whether in her pretended Capacity as Goodwife of the City of Los Angeles, or, in his, or her, actual State, as a Student of Madness, gone mad himself or herself, in that same City.

The pretend'd Mrs. Weiss's principal Affection is Mockery, which he or she performs after the Manner of Mr. Sasha Cohen; who regards such Sophistries in his own Mind as great Wit, but, which any Person of Breeding & good Sense can only look upon with mix't bemus'd Contempt & Horrour.

My wife was 57 when she married then 62 year old me. The adult children acted like adults (except after the reception.) Four years later the marriage is happy and rewarding even beyond our high expectations. The adult children (8 of them) are still acting like adults, and still happy for us.

That's gotta be the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me on Althouse, and coming from you Host, it's even nicer. I don't know what to say, other than thank you. This might buy us a few weeks of civility towards each other in the comments! Thanks again.

Now, Maxine.

I think of her comments as sort of performance art, and of course they aren't serious. So because there is no truth or saneness to any of her words, they end up being really, really funny. I've been LOL'ing reading all her comments. This might be naive of me considering her truly creepy obsession with the Althouse family, but the more detached from reality Maxine gets, the more it's kind of fascinating.

Althouse's dude is a neighbor of Peter Frampton's. Since it's in the Cincy area, he's probably Republican?

From the papers:

CINCINNATI — Rocker Peter Frampton is wishing someone would show him the way to keep his Barack Obama yard signs from getting swiped.

The Grammy winner is complaining that signs showing his preference for the Democratic presidential candidate have been stolen repeatedly at his home in the upscale and predominantly Republican Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill.

Frampton, 58, is so angry, he called The Cincinnati Enquirer asking to be interviewed.

The British-born singer of "Show Me the Way" and other hits told the newspaper that one reason he became a U.S. citizen was so he could vote. Now, he says his American rights to free speech and political speech are being violated and it "bugs" him.

Congratulation and best wishes. It had to be the wonderful city of Cincinnati that made the difference. Could not be happier than seeing people who are both smart and good to read and they make it work. May you live long and be happy together.

So Althouse and Meade are an item. I only joked about her having a boner for someone on this blog, but I had no idea it was Meade. Well, if it's true then congratulation to both of you. Love is like air, you breath it in to give you life and exhale hate so you can breath in more love. Enjoy it.